Y'shayahu / Isaiah 55:3 says "Incline your ear and come to Me; Listen and your soul will be rejuvenated; I will make an eternal covenant with you; the enduring kindness [promised] to David." It does not say one word about resurrecting the dead. This passage cannot be speaking of Jesus for one simple reason: Isaiah is talking to a plural group not about a lone individual. Isaiah tells the people of his generation to look for G-d while He can still be found – meaning before the judgment of exile is passed. The word translated as "soul" is "נַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם" -- the word is a plural form of נֶֽפֶשׁ nefesh (singular). It does not mean the immortal soul, but instead refers to being alive (the blood coursing through your veins keeping you alive). . . G-d is telling the Jewish people (plural) in verse 2: "Hearken to Me and eat what is good, and your נַפְשְׁכֶֽם soul shall delight in fatness." נַפְשְׁכֶֽם is used in both verses -- verse 2 and verse 3. Isaiah (speaking for G-d) is addressing the Jewish people (plural) of his generation -- a generation not yet exiled -- and not speaking of one person (Jesus or anyone else). Thus Y'shayahu / Isaiah 55:3 is not speaking of resurrection at all, and the subject is plural and thus is not "the" messiah who is one person. Since, yet again, the list maker is skipping verses (s/he went from verse 1 to verse 3, skipping verse 2) -- ignoring the context let's not make the same mistake. What exactly is Isaiah speaking about? Y'shayahu / Isaiah chapters 40 - 66 speak to the Jewish nation who G-d exiles as a punishment for the nation's lack of observance. The Jewish nation is judged both as a whole and each individual Jew is also judged. Isaiah speaks of the fact that a time will come when the exile will end, all the Jews will return to the land of Israel, the world will be at peace and the messiah will rule over the world. None of that happened with Jesus. In Y'shayahu / Isaiah 55 Isaiah is speaking tot he Jewish nation and telling them that to bring the promises to fruition they should study Torah. He uses the analogy of a thirsty man who needs water to survive -- Torah is air and water to the Jew. Isaiah tells them (and us) that all who are thirsty to go to the water. Even those without money (without Torah knowledge) to buy food (to study with no education) -- it will not be a problem -- "drink" wine and milk instead of water (study and you will learn!). Isaiah tells them: listen to G-d and you will eat your fill! Turn towards Him and live, enjoying an eternal covenant. In Y'shayahu / Isaiah 55:3 the prophet is speaking for G-d and does speak of the messiah. He reaffirms the promises G-d made to David that his descendant will be the ruler during this golden age. David's descendant will be the messiah. It is easy to see why the list maker points to Jesus -- because Christians will claim he was a descendant of David. But he wasn't. Not if either of the two conflicting lineages in the Christian bible given for Jesus are accurate. Jesus, quite simply, was not a Davidic heir and had no right at all to the throne (whether by virtue of a “virgin” birth, or one of the two conflicting lineages for Joseph). The Torah specifies that blood rights, such as tribal lineage, are transmitted exclusively from a father to his biological sons. Whenever the Israelites were selected to serve in the army, it was done "according to the house of their father": Bambidar / Numbers 1:17-18 - "Then Moses and Aaron took these men, who were indicated by [their] names, (18 ) and they assembled all the congregation on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees according to their families according to their fathers' houses; according to the number of names, a head count of every male from twenty years old and upward." Similarly, the Aaronic Priesthood can only be transmitted from a father to his biological sons (Exodus 40:15; Numbers 25:12-13). The census was conducted paternally as well. To be a rightful King one must be of the tribe of Judah. The only way to be of this tribe is to have a Jewish mother and a Jewish father who is OF the tribe of Judah and descended from King Solomon (the son of King David).Tanach clearly says that the legitimate (Davidic) throne will go to descendents of Solomon ONLY. You mentioned that UriYosef quotes the following in his article. It really is very clear. All those others quoted by your Xian do not refute this or say "G-d changed His mind and made it conditional on "if." 2 Samuel 7 says nothing about IF. It is not at all conditional: The son of David who built the Temple was Solomon. G-d will establish his kingdom forever. Ironclad. And then read Divrei Hayamim I / 1 Chronicles 22:9-10 "Behold a son will be born to you; he will be a man of peace, and I shall give him peace from all his enemies around about, for Solomon will be his name, and I shall give peace and quiet to Israel in his days. (10) He shall build a House in My Name, and he shall be to Me as a son, and I to him as a Father, and I shall prepare the throne of his kingdom forever." Solomon - not Jesus. Divrei Hayamim I / 1 Chronicles 28:4-7 "Hashem, G-d of Israel, chose me (David) from all my father's family to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah to be the ruler, and of the House of Judah [He chose] my father's house, and of the sons of my father it was me that He saw fit to make king over all Israel. And from all my sons- for many sons have Hashem given me- He has chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of Hashem, over Israel. He said to me, "Your son Solomon- he shall build My Temple and My courtyards; for I have chosen him to be a son for Me, and I will be a Father for him. And I will establish his kingdom forever- if he will be firm in fulfilling My commandments and My laws, as on this day." Read also M'lachim Alef / 1 Kings 8:15-20; Divrei Hayamim Alef / 1 Chronicles 17:11-15, 22:9-10, and 28:3-7. For more clarification read UriYosef's article Genealogical Scams and Flimflams. The messianic prophecy regarding resurrection is not that the messiah will die and be resurrected (indeed, if a person dies before fulfilling all the messianic prophecies he is NOT the messiah). The messianic prophecy regarding resurrection states that the righteous of the world will be resurrected during the time of the messiah. This did not happen with Jesus. We are told that some dead came out of their graves (although no external sources speak of what one would think was a memorable occasion) -- but if this happened only in Jerusalem and not worldwide it failed to fulfill the prophecy regarding the resurrection of the righteous. When the messiah comes the righteous will be resurrected and the soul reunited with body; this is why Jews do not believe in cremation or embalming ( Y'shayahu / Isaiah 26). The T'nach seems to tell us that only the righteous will be resurrected (Daniel 12). Yet, there is a school of thought that every Jewish soul that ever lived will be resurrected. “Even the empty ones among you [Israel] are filled with mitzvot as a pomegranate [is filled with seeds]"—Talmud, Berachot 57a and The soul of every Jew is a "veritable portion of G‑d," and as such is eternal and indestructible. Ask yourself: if the T'nach tells us that one day ALL the righteous will be resurrected, how can one person dying and resurrecting be a prophecy about the messiah who is one person? If anything, since all the righteous will resurrect, Jesus' supposed resurrection is the OPPOSITE of a messianic prophecy. There is no prophecy in the T'nach (bible) that the messiah will die and be resurrected -- and this claimed "prophecy" is speaking of people (plural) not one person (Jesus).
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